Christopher Hitchens

The New Atheism and Evolutionary Religious Studies: Clarifying Their Relationship

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Evolutionary Religious Studies, Daniel Dennett, Atheism, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, New Atheism, Religion News

What is the relationship between the New Atheism and Evolutionary Religious Studies? This question is surprisingly complex and needs to be answered in at least three steps.

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Chelsea Handler--Is That Vodka Talking Trash About Angelina Jolie?

Liz Smith | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Darren Aronofsky, Russell Crowe, Graydon Carter, Christopher Hitchens, Angelina Jolie, Chelsea Handler, Vanity Fair, Celebrity News

Chelsea, you're a funny woman, a great big star on E!, a best-selling author and clearly a pal to Aniston. But Jennifer doesn't need your defense of her.

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John Oliver at the Museum of the Moving Image Dinner

Regina Weinreich | Posted 04.20.2012

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Among the many anecdotes and readings offered by an array of speakers honoring the memory of Christopher Hitchens at the Cooper Union Great Hall.

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A-List Turnout For Hitchens Memorial

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Hogan | Posted 04.21.2012

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A formidable lineup of writers, editors, actors, scientists, and assorted intellectuals gathered at Cooper Union's Great Hall, at 7 East 7th Street, t...

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Biblical Literalism, Secularism And American Politics

Christopher Lane | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Left Behind, Andrew Sullivan, Christopher Hitchens, Secularism, Rick Santorum, James Dobson, Christianity, Religion and Politics, Biblical Literalism, Barack Obama, Evangelicals, Religion News

The atrophying of our national understanding of secularism has dramatic implications for the country's well-being, including, most fundamentally, its ability to separate politics from religion.

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The Atheist Passover Seder With Christopher Hitchens

Eliyahu Federman | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Atheism and Religion, Atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Passover, Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Tolerance, Judaism, Passover Seder, Religion News

You have no excuse for not attending or hosting a Passover seder. Foremost atheist and anti-theist Christopher Hitchens made one and even required his daughter to attend.

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The Sad, Silly Idea Of 'Religion for Atheists'

Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Purposes of Religion, Alain De Botton, Atheism, Religion for Atheists, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Religious Books, Religion News

When God and belief are stripped out of the equation, we are left with rituals and practices that are primarily hedonistic and hollow. What de Botton offers us is "religion for atheists," but what he gives us is pseudo-religion and empty routine.

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Why The Universe Obviously Has A Creator (and Why Some Atheists Refuse To Even Consider It)

Rabbi Alan Lurie | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Scientific Method, Christopher Hitchens, Atheism, New Atheism, Religion and Science, Richard Dawkins, Agnosticism, Judaism, Religion News

To make the scientific claim that one will "go where the evidence leads," while not even considering the obvious possibility of a deliberate Creator, is to be intellectually dishonest at best.

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3 Books By Christopher Hitchens Coming In April

AP | Posted 05.01.2012

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NEW YORK — Three of Christopher Hitchens' most contentious books are coming back into print, and debuting in digital form. Twelve, an imprint o...

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Does It Matter That Steve Jobs Was a Crap Father?

Thomas Beller | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Steve Jobs, Dads, Christopher Hitchens, Work and Play, Being a Father, Fatherhood, Parenting, Being a Dad, Arts News

Jobs was a workaholic who regretted that he had not spent more time with his kids. But we were left to balance this regret with the thought that these kids were left with the legacy of a hard-working father who found a kind of spiritual redemption in his work.

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How Do Our Facebook Selves Write About Death?

Lucas Kavner | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Michael Jackson, Christopher Hitchens, Whitney Houston Icon, Twitter, Whitney Houston, Zadie Smith, Being Bobby Brown, Facebook Deaths, Whitney Houston Death, Facebook Walls, Facebook, Amy Winehouse, Bobby Brown, Culture News

As Houston's family and close friends mourn, do our "RIP Whitney" posts mean something, sandwiched between posts about cereal and recaps of The Bachelor, especially after we've watched, over many years, her slow-motion fall from grace?

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'Religious' Scientists And The Legacy Of Christopher Hitchens

Robert J. Asher | Posted 04.03.2012

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Even if Hitchens would never have used the term "religion" in the positive sense in which I see it, he set an example by which the nuances behind such concepts can be evaluated on their own merits.

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Two Ways Of Thinking About Agnosticism: Hitchens vs. Dawkins

Christopher Lane | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Faith and Doubt, Atheist, Atheism, Agnostic, Richard Dawkins, Agnosticism, Christopher Hitchens, Religion News

That Hitchens took a glass-half-full approach to agnostics is notable because it's sharply at odds with the line of his compatriot, Richard Dawkins, whose thoughts on agnostics are almost uniformly negative.

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The Iron Lady's Sex Appeal

Christopher Hitchens | Posted 03.13.2012

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In this lost essay by the late Christopher Hitchens, he reveals his penchant for right-wing women. It is a brilliant, perfect jewel of an essay on politics and sexuality by a great writer.

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Christopher Hitchens' Last Words

Vanity Fair | Posted 01.05.2012

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While it's tempting to see Charles Dickens as a fusion of his heroes and villains, on the great British novelist's 200th birthday his true gifts shoul...

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Gay City News Doug Ireland: My 'Queer Friend' Christopher Hitchens

Gay City News | Doug Ireland | Posted 01.04.2012

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Over the holidays, I read gay British novelist Alan Hollinghurst's fine new novel, "The Stranger's Child." The winner of Britain's most prestigious li...

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Gender And Humor: Was Christopher Hitchens Right When He Said Women Aren't Funny?

Peter McGraw and Joel Warner | Posted 03.04.2012

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The studies that do find gender differences conclude men might have a slight advantage over women in coming up with good jokes. But such research misses the fact that men's advantage may come at a cost.

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On Christopher Hitchens, Movie Critic

www.villagevoice.com | Posted 12.27.2011

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In a testy exchange with The King's Speech screenwriter David Seidler earlier this year on Slate, Christopher Hitchens wrote, "All other consideration...

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Hitchens: Arch-Fundamentalist?

Roger Housden | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Literature, Fundamentalism, Cancer, Newt Gingrich, Faith, Christopher Hitchens, Death & Dying, Christopher Hitchens Atheism, Religion News

For all his posturing and bombast, Christopher Hitchens devoted his life to what he believed in, and that is as good a legacy as any.

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Your Weekend Random-Ass Roundup: A Christmas Wish

J.D. Bell | Posted 02.22.2012

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All I want for Christmas is to never hear about Michelle Obama's ass again. Unless it's at my barbershop. Now come, ye faithful readers. Gather round...

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Kay on Havel, Orwell and the Greengrocer

Robert Teitelman | Posted 02.21.2012

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John Kay has a characteristically graceful little column today in the Financial Times that opens up new vistas rather than slams doors shut. This is rare and worth an end-of-the-year comment or two.

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Saint Christopher

Sean Carman | Posted 02.20.2012

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Was Christopher Hitchens a good friend, an entertaining comrade, and the embodiment of a journalistic ideal? Or was he a writer of tremendous gifts who never quite found the true north of his compass?

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Christopher Hitchens Meets Kim Jong Il and the Class of 2011

MP Nunan | Posted 02.18.2012

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Inside what looks like the bar in an airport departures terminal. It's dimly lit, with dark wooden tables and faux leather chairs failing to give the ...

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Hitchens Debunked Facile Maxims to the End

Michael Sigman | Posted 02.18.2012

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Hitchens was so prolific, one had to pick and choose among his many books, essays and journalism. During his last years, Hitchens' writing remained amazingly muscular even as his body betrayed him.

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Christopher Hitchens is "Not Great"

Kabir Helminski | Posted 02.18.2012

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In presenting the secular rationalist versus the religious fanatic, Hitchens obscured the fact that the greatest slaughters of human history were not the result of religious wars, but the result of secular or non-religious ideologie

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